RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

You can do no better than to order your fiesta grill
food take out style right when you hit Carrboro Plaza.

The chicken mole holds up even after being transported
to Durham.

--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> You need to spend more time on chowhound.com, Todd .
> . .
> 
> When Chowhound founder Jim Leff made a trip through
> the Triangle last 
> year on his big chow tour, he also went nuts for El
> Paraiso (the 
> bunkerlike one): http://www.chow.com/tour/156
> (scroll down past his trip 
> to Allen & Son with Bob Garner)
> 
> I'm partial to Taqueria Lopez in particular for
> their cabeza and their 
> campechano tacos. I haven't tried any of their
> seafood, which is 
> actually apparently their best stuff, because I
> can't stop ordering the 
> meats. Here's one of several chowhound threads: 
> http://www.chowhound.com/topics/373513  . . .
> they're my favorite Durham 
> taqueria, but I'll confess I still haven't made it
> to Paraiso.
> 
> Super Taqueria is fun because of the big fixin's
> bar. Just a little 
> further up Roxboro from Super Taq is a hispanic
> grocery store with a 
> taqueria/tortilleria in one side of it. If you go on
> a Saturday you may 
> be subjected to spanish-language karaoke, but it's a
> good place to chase 
> down some goat.
> 
> Fiesta Grill, as the article makes clear, is a whole
> different animal. I 
> think we've probably discussed it here enough
> already (or if not, then 
> there's no need, because too many of y'all keep
> driving over here from 
> elsewhere & making the lines too damn long) but
> yeah, the mole and the 
> carnitas are my faves. It's torture that the closest
> restaurant to my 
> house -- practically my neighborhood joint -- is so
> damn good but also 
> so popular that you gotta go either at 11:30 Sunday
> morning, or like 
> 5:00 p.m. on weeknights if you want to get a seat
> without a 20-minute wait.
> 
> La Vaquita (formerly known as Miranda's, and before
> that it was a 
> dairy-bar drive-up joint which I vaguely remember
> from the 90s, I think) 
> is fun when the weather is nice, and of the Durham
> taquerias I've tried, 
> they had the best tamales. I liked their pastor a
> lot as well. You gotta 
> sit on the curb (or in the car) to eat. It's right
> across the street 
> from Four Square, which is one of the top-10 restos
> in the Triangle, 
> probably, which juxtaposition is another reason to
> love Durham.
> 
> As for the magazine piece itself, it's well-written
> and well-researched; 
> I think they hit the highlights pretty well. I'm
> going to be cautiously 
> optimistic that it's going to increase traffic to my
> fave joints enough 
> to ensure they stay in business, without causing a
> Fiesta Grill-like 
> flood of gringos who'll make it impossible to
> actually get fed. Fingers 
> crossed, anyway.
> 
> xo
> 
> Ross
> 
> Todd Morman wrote:
> > I'm curious to hear what folks think of the new
> Gourmet mag piece, "Carolina Cocina," that
> recommended 6 local Latino restaurants. A friend of
> mine has gone to two on the list already, and
> reports that the one on Alston Avenue that looks
> like a concrete bunker (I forget the name) was
> amazing. The folks who own it weren't even aware
> they'd been written up in Gourmet, so my pal left
> his copy of the mag with them so they could figure
> out why all these white folks would be coming by
> soon.
> > 
> > They went to Taqueria Lopez next, and while it was
> good, they said it wasn't as good as the first
> place. SpiceLines wrote that there weren't any
> Anglos there when they went, but my friend said
> there was an Anglo couple and when he asked, they
> said yeah, it was the Gourmet article that did it.
> > 
> > I haven't seen the article yet (it's on pp. 31-36
> of September's "Latino Food" issue), but I wonder
> what folks here have to say about it.
> > 
> > Spicelines:
>
http://www.spicelines.com/2007/08/local_flavors_at_taqueria_lope.htm
> > Chow.com: http://www.chow.com/grinder/3565
> > HispanicTips:
>
http://www.hispanictips.com/2007/08/16/gourmet-september-2007-special-issue-latino-food-newsstands-august-2007/
> > 
> > todd nice to see "Triangle = Durham" for a change
> morman
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